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...with a 300-year history of Spanish friars who ruled towns and villages. His moral authority prevented Philippine governments from promoting family planning, and as a result, the country's population growth rate is the highest in Asia, particularly among the poor. He helped engineer a second People Power revolt in 2001, which overthrew Joseph Estrada. Many of his obituaries pointed out that for a man of the cloth, Sin had a healthy appetite for affairs of the state. "Sin's spirituality," wrote veteran newspaper publisher Max V. Soliven, "was overshadowed by his propensity to meddle in politics...
That statement by no means applies to all Hungarians, and the comfort that exists has been hard won. Hungary's first experiments with marketplace reforms were crushed during the country's 1956 uprising against Soviet domination. Paradoxically, the man who presided over the suppression of that revolt, Janos Kadar, now 73 and still the country's leader, made today's relative prosperity possible...
Perhaps the most important difference between the two countries is that South Korea borders on Communist North Korea. The Communist danger makes it very unlikely that the Reagan Administration would abandon the Chun government. "We are not going to try to foment revolt in South Korea," says one State Department official...
...ground and in the air last week, fighting in the 6½-year-old revolt of Afghan rebels against Soviet invasion forces reached its fiercest level. In an all-out drive to cut the guerrillas' main supply line from Pakistan, Soviet troops overran a key stronghold in Jawar in eastern Afghanistan. The mile-long underground complex was a major training and storage site for the anti-Communist mujahedin forces. Meanwhile, waves of war-planes blasted insurgent positions along the Afghan-Pakistani border as some 10,000 Soviet and Afghan troops advanced on the ground. "This is the worst fighting...
...some professors are eager to see how Kirby will act if Summers retreats from FAS affairs. They say that Kirby has been placed in a difficult position by the winter crisis, forced to publicly support Summers while his faculty rose in open revolt against the president...